Lisa Bella Donna - Turning Point (Full Concert) 2021

A special, exclusive in studio concert. Commissioned in celebration for the post premiere release of "Sisters with Transistors" by Metrograph Films.
Enjoy an evening of all new compositions performed & realized live.
This is a rare glimpse into the world & private studio of Lisa's muse.
Full length album of this concert available at: lisabelladonna.bandcamp.com/a...
Lisa Bella Donna - Turning Point
1. An Omen Bird's Departure (0:25)
2. Turning Point (2:45)
3. Autopsy (15:41)
All compositions written, arranged, realized by Lisa Bella Donna
Filmed, recorded, and mixed
April 23, 2021 at Appalachian Recording
Mastered by Harold LaRue Mastering
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Video photography & editing: Tristan Whitney Weary
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Special thanks to: Moog Music Inc., Sisters with Transistors, Metrograph Films, Universal Audio, Hologram Electronics, Mellotron Sweden. Peter Foley Electronics, Akron Hardwoods, Tristan Whitney Weary & Harold LaRue.
Make sure you take a moment to visit www.metrograph.com
To watch the ever inspiring "Sisters with Transistors" Film by Lisa Rovner
sisterswithtransistors.com
metrograph.com/live-screening...
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[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Hi Everyone! Just wanted to give my sincere gratitude for everyone who stopped by this weekend, listened here, for your kind comments and those who bought the album on my Bandcamp. That support allows for this to happen. I appreciate you. Much love to all and Happy Mother’s Day to all the mommas today. Love, LBD ❤️

[@JKVisFX]

What an amazing piece of music. It felt so familiar yet so unlike anything else I'd heard. It took me a while then it finally hit me - Michael Stearns. This recording reminded me of early Michael Stearns, only with much better recording quality. I absolutely love this kind of dreamy, otherworldly, evocative music. Amazing. Heading over to buy the album shortly.

[@haileyhimes538]

I'm a student at Full Sail University in the Audio Production - Bachelor of Science Degree Program, and I just wrote about you for one of my assignments. I even mentioned how I fell down a rabbit hole of being entranced by your perfected craft. Love your work -- Hailey

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

@@haileyhimes538 That’s so wonderful to hear! Let me know if I can be a resource.

[@garygimmestad4272]

I recently vented about the gap in synth education and now feel I must apologize for directing it at you - an inspiring individual doing more than most to educate! So, yes, I do apologize for my misdirected frustration. I watched your interview with Matt who also had questions about that empty space between elementary and advanced learning. I’ve been on the path you suggested to him for about a year - watching KZbin, doing tutorials I can find, re-reading manuals, etc. I don’t know about others but I often feel ‘synth anxiety’ which is akin to math anxiety - that psychological trap of beginning with, “Oh boy, this is going to go right over my head and even if it groks, I will not remember it tomorrow.” I love the sound worlds you create and I love the alchemy and the suggestion of mysticism, and your performance gestures which keep you and us in the flow. Some scoff at that aspect of your performances - offense at the pretense of spell-casting. But I see it as your body connecting to the circuits. I think it was Pauline Oliveras who said, “Listen to the circuits.” (?) Your story-telling approach reminds me of Keith Jarret’s extended solo improvisations - the move from simplicity to complexity and back again - the way of so much music and story telling. His decision to stop - to re-enter earthly time - suggested that this story goes on. It began before he started playing, he wove us into it and back out again, like stepping back ashore. He would do the namaste hands and stand up. As with your journeys into parallel worlds, he danced across the grid and the groove, the underpinning, but lyricism was the breath and life of it. Your Jazz and R&B experience is powerfully evident in the way you find the pocket of each piece. So many kudos! That you can do this so beautifully with modular synthesis - in performance - is extraordinary. So, I’m definitely inspired to keep going - chasing Bella Donna! Rather than gripe about the lack of instruction, I think it’s time to reach out and find local Moogers. There’s no group here but maybe I can get one going. Thank you for all you do! Come to Minneapolis!

[@russellyoung6498]

Wonderful, a true masterwork. Thank you so much.

[@wicky4473]

I’m 65, recently retired…and have started my journey into synths. Perhaps if I live to 120, I may just be able to begin to comprehend the setup. Brilliant.

[@waynefoote3781]

Nice keep it up!

[@ricardopineda8224]

I have 64 and I bough 7 days ago my first Synth, a Cobalt 8 from Modal. I do not know any of produce or compound music, I am just an audiophile and I love music. I was surprised when I read your comment avobe. Do you now enjoy your first synth? Do you still play it?

[@wicky4473]

@@ricardopineda8224 yes I do! I have a Korg Monilogue and an Arturia Microfreak

[@ricardopineda8224]

@@wicky4473 Congratulations! Have a nice days with your synths and many days of life. 🤣 Thank you for answering.

[@CinematicLaboratory]

This is why I got into synthesis about 40 years ago and still coming not even close to what you're doing here, Prima Donna of Moog. And with a setup like that, who cares being in lockdown. The world of the mind is always wide open and without rules and borders. Your storytelling is just amazing.

[@dustincassidy]

Hi-

[@jazzjeffjazzjeff]

Holy cow, look at that wall of Mothers! Happy Mother’s Day

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Thank you ❤️

[@torvous346]

You could say...it's the mothership.

[@yfrontsguy]

I love how you never shy away from the dark side of life as well as embracing the luminous.

[@daviddowd8757]

You are the most talented artist I've come across on youtube. This work took me to another world full of color beauty. I too am a keyboardist/drummer. I saw Karlheinz Stockhausen perform Tierkreis at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in the mid 70s when I was 16 yrs. old. My aunt was a volunteer there and our family was visited that day. He played a modular synth that generated rumbling low pitch earth shaking sounds that preceded each of the twelve compositions. Each composition was played on unconventional, original acoustic, brass, reed and stringed instruments of his own design. The whole performance created an other earthly atmosphere. I am so lucky to live in an age that has someone so gifted like you Ms. Bella Donna you are an inspiration to me.

[@moguizpatton7582]

Awesome!. I had not heard something like this, nor had I been hooked so incredibly quickly, since Isao Tomita! I find the sounds and textures that this beautiful woman achieves in her machines sensational and wonderful, I can spend hours enthralled and hypnotized by these wonderful sound waves!

[@David-ng7cr]

I just found your music today. I'm a 64 year old man who is absolutely mesmerized. So beautiful. I was watching something about Geddy Lee and it took me here. You have a new fan.

[@georgesboutz8080]

As a student of Tangerine Dream way back in the 80's, let me say I am blown away, you are awsome! Thank you for your musical creations,

[@BoardgameBaker]

The thing with Lisa is that she combines great synthesis craftsmanship, hauntingly beautiful compositions and deliciously nasty shredding. There is something here for fans all over the synth spectrum, from Jarre and Vangelis to Rudess and Wakeman - and Lisa can definitely hold her own in that company.

[@barbaraf8380]

A great master makes the incomprehensible look effortless. Thank you for releasing this to the world! Love from the American southwest.

[@zulkarnin]

The only thing I can say is wow you’re taking electronic music in different level just like tangerine dream in old days, you are super talented, as been long time that I seen a electronic musician to be proud of lady.

[@krisdavidoff181]

This concert is insane! I'm an Italian rock/metal keyboard player and I've recently discovered Lisa. An incredible talent, sound designer at the highest level and great composer. I feel a blend of sensations when I listen to this: warm electronic music, how it should be conceived (imho) as an expressive tool, perfectly combined with feelings coming from Nature, like sounds of "spirits of the woods" during a light raining... I'm a big David Lynch fan and while i'm listening to this music I can immagine this as a perfect soundtrack for Twin Peaks! Lisa is a great example of overcoming the (apparent) "oxymoron" between music made by playing electronic machines and the pure Nature; Electronics IS a part of Nature and this is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this Davide

[@LoVeAmBiEnT]

When you can sit down in front of all this wonderful gear and actually make amazing music like this... that's almost the meaning of life

[@studentsmusic]

The best Moog Ambassador and great analog mastery to listen to

[@lovesteersthestars]

The instruments and the music are extraterrestrial. Perhaps the performer as well.

[@chrislink73]

This lady is actually a sorceress. Such cool sounds, even though it's mostly synthesized, it all sounds very organic and human.

[@The_G_in_Jesus]

all the beauty of a witch and a wizard, the voices of so many spirits being channeled. a small moment to appreciate we've shared this and a moment, that's all. be well, all who see :)

[@VickersDoorter]

She's a bloke.

[@Syntox]

I feel so at peace now...

[@celeph]

A few years ago I discovered Klaus Schulze's 1977 WDR-performance on KZbin and was super-obsessed with the music I was kind of aware of but never paid much attention to when I was still in Germany. After listening to so many so similar sounding albums my excitement and obsession started to fade a little, but this all changed again when I discovered your recordings. I don't know how, but you make it sound fresh and magical again. Amazing journey - definitely one of my favorite (if not *the* favorite) bc-Friday additions today :) Thank you!

[@oldman4863]

Lisa watching you perform is as wonderful as listening to the magic you create....thanks for bringing us along for the ride ;}

[@_gilmusica]

that's perfect. this solo minimoog voyager (at around 3:30 and onwards) is one of the most beautiful sounds I ever heard. So pure, and clean and perfect, its a great contrast to the more muffled and mellow sound of the mellotron. Cutting like a warm knife through butter. Very inspiring very very very please share more music like this!!

[@user-zj2he7on8m]

The World of electronic infinity 😎💕💥 and a QUEEN of synthesis Lisa

[@michaelwilde2209]

The Synthstress plays wonderful music,thank you,amazing

[@johnchiappone2163]

I really love your music - and your studio.

[@eikarumba429]

A demonstration of true synth sorcery and musical talent! Bravo Lisa!

[@189951]

Je suis époustouflé par autant de maitrise de ses instruments, connaitre par cœur tous ses appareils, les moindres réglages, en plus de pouvoir jouer en live alors que la luminosité n’est pas toujours très bonne et avec toutes ses bretelles de câbles, une vraie jungle pour s’y retrouver sans se tromper, c’est vraiment très impressionnant de voire cette facilité déconcertante avec laquelle vous jouer !!! Avec tous ces appareils, je retrouve plein de sonorités des années 70 comme avec Mike Oldfield, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Pink-Floyd, toute ma jeunesse ! Vous êtes vraiment très bien inspiré musicalement en plus d’être une technicienne hors norme, un grand bravo à vous de France ! 💙🤍❤

[@OrganNLou]

ABSOLUTELY ENTRANCING!!

[@steveball7086]

Well, after seeing/hearing this performance I don’t know if I should just woodshed in my little studio for the rest of my life or just sell my gear and forget it. What a talent, what a sound and what a work space. Beautiful...

[@LisaBellaDonnaMusic]

Please just keep enjoying and embracing your own journey with music! ❤️

[@meilstone]

I agree, music is a very personal experience and you can have a great time in many ways on many levels. Even with one instrument or just your own voice... ❤

[@TimeTravelingMusiculator-rs6yw]

Beautiful

[@-Ashunar]

Wow, Space. Very nice. The Mellowtron, I think on old Tangerine Dream Songs. Superb

[@Digithalis]

Lisa you are just awesome, bravo!!!! :-)))))

[@11clouds]

Such a unique style, that studio would be so fun

[@harrisonthacker9707]

Another zinger from the sonic sorceress. :)

[@ahmedabdelaziz1298]

You know what is this …. This is heaven here what you do Lisa is heaven. I love you God

[@michaelfriedman9029]

Bravo, can't believe I'm just finding this

[@cfibanez]

Now... watching... all those knobs and blinks.... mesmerized... hypnotized... Wow!

[@PT_English]

Perfect soundtrack for painting

[@donwrangler]

Queen of the keys 🙌

[@travellogger5080]

Lisa is on a different level. In my book she is the best electronic musician of the current generation.

[@yocatbus]

Hands down, THE coolest lady on Earth & maybe even beyond! A true inspiration to all of us. :)

[@fulcrum7082]

that studio is worth more than my life, Amazing performance too :) theres just something about synths

[@endless_arps]

And that , is how it's done 🖤 Thank you Lisa

[@mariannalbok4468]

Lisa the synth priestess Divine, uplifting music shakes my soul. Moog’s wonderful bass and ethereal melodies sensitize the soul. Wonderful performance, Music is a divine gift that expresses one’s deepest feelings. Wonderful!

[@boogerd59]

Dear Lissa , you are playing the same as I with your heart , so beautiful !! I hope to see you in concert in the Netherlands maybe later , I am playing always with my old Moog Taurus Peals and my Flamenco guitar music is my life , Gracias !!!

[@user-dw2xh7sh2i]

Bella-bella, Donna-donna...

[@markvanderhoek1750]

Great fan of Tangerine Dream. Listen to Lisa for the first time. Love IT ! And thanks for your contribution on Star One !

[@rleriche5044]

This is what it sounds like after everything has stopped and the simplicity of reality in its perfect unity is wondering whether to do it all again.

[@umairzia3846]

Perfect music for programming

[@expandingknowledge8269]

Incredible compliment of instruments and sound Lisa. Truly outstanding performance! 🎹 🎶 😎

[@AppaBoy]

Beautiful mellotron playing

[@tgiencke]

Lisa I just wanted to let you know that I have listened to your whole collection these past weeks and it is helped my COVID-19 related depression while I do my RN charting. Huge thank you! I have even picked up a Moog Matriarch to do my own therapeutic playing after work. You keep on doing you. And I will keep on doing me. Have a great day!

[@dignafelicisima]

Synths have also helped me out a lot. They are wonderful noble machines. I truly believe that.

[@chuckdorado9737]

Man, Lisa's discography is outstanding! From Deadsea to EYE to all her solo stuff... Simply stunning!!!

[@simone53093]

Bravissima! 🤎

[@tonywharton5220]

Gorgeous as always Lisa. I'm always stunned by the complexity of your music. Lots of love from the UK 💜

[@it1333]

❤️ The Jedi of synths - a genius. There I am with one or two synths 😳

[@Electric_Crystals]

nice! kinds reminds me of my sounds lol! keep up the great work!

[@delarueoliv3828]

May be the Coventry cathédrale.. Actually just a legacy from TD... As Always so beautiful sounds and inspiration. Great job, Master Lisa, French kisses from country of JMJ and don't forget Florian...one year missing

[@EXSICX]

A trip to the beautiful Void and beyond

[@BillVincent]

Revisiting this today and I'm just in awe. Your work is magnificent. Your style is gentle and powerful. Your music makes the world a better place. Thank you.

[@JoeJohnston-taskboy]

Sometimes, it is fun to watch someone who understands how to play music do so using these crazy high-end synths. Actual keyboard chops + modular == mind blown. Cheers.

[@chadduncan9716]

Have been so inspired but your music I’ve started adding behringer model d and neutron in my wishlist of synths to start with.

[@swishersweets777]

I find your compositions to be extremely soothing and transcendental. They allow me to shut off all the other noise in my brain generated by the outside world and they allow me to focus to a point of an almost astral travel like state. Not many artists and their music do that for me anymore. Thank you.

[@okterb68]

Absolutely spellbinding from start to finish. As a musician, I find myself listening to Lisa's music and making a deep connection with her sound world. It's especially interesting to me because as I listen, I become aware that I wouldn't make music quite like this and yet I love it soooo much. Upon reflection, I believe this is a testament to Lisa's truly unique musical language. Of course I wouldn't make music like this; there's only one Lisa Bella Donna!

[@dum432]

Amazing!!! Thanks Lisa!!!

[@Starshooter216]

"Beautiful!" You have just taken my breath away. This is the 2nd video of yours that I have watched and it has officially been decided that I really like your music. I watched this one on the same day that I watched the other one, in fact, right after I watched the other one. I hope you keep on making many more as well as lots of your music. Beautiful sounding music, and just what I have been looking for. Steve in Abilene, Texas.

[@waggon321]

I keep coming back to this. superb!

[@powerkor]

Excellent! multi-cam video from the Situation Room

[@steveg219]

Always sounds SO GREAT!!

[@mikecampbell8100]

Absolutely love this !

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love your work!!

[@MartinBrossman]

You rock as always! Love it!

[@nicolasg.1601]

Just magic, thank's a lot Lisa...

[@stanleyawdo278]

this is just brilliant thank you very much Lisa...

[@brianrodman1033]

Lisa your performances always blow me away. Thank you for sharing your gift.

[@phmodular]

Beautiful ! Thank you for share !

[@jppcreative]

I haven't been on social frequently for a bit. What a nice surprise to find!

[@diderichlangmannen]

Another absolute masterpiece. Impressive. Thank you so much, Lisa.

[@ZenMountain]

And then some people will still INSIST that plugins sound the same. Fantastic music, sounds and performance. Thank you.

[@JKLANG440]

Nice corner for nice music ...really TD flavour

[@barbaraf8380]

If you thought time and deep space travel weren't possible, just listen to this. Magnificent!

[@OrbvsTomarvm]

beautiful ...and so is the music!

[@ednasdiscomachine6049]

Beautiful.

[@ToXyGeNeDK]

Simply GREAT ! ! ! * * * * *

[@unamacarana]

Absolutely Outstanding !!!

[@schaspere]

This is so damn good! Thank you for the beautiful music!

[@StarlitCorridors]

Mesmerizing.

[@justin_russell]

It's always a great day when there's a new Lisa video out! Great as always!

[@orangedogmusic]

Beautiful!

[@clearfixsounds]

So amazing Lisa 🤗 thx 4 share this with us

[@SynthgodXXX]

Fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing! :)

[@thelaboratoryofspacerecord5239]

Loved it! What a great performance, thank you.

[@Hail_Sagan]

Lisa, the gift of your music is so special. Thank you very, very much! It is so appreciated!

[@simonclivehughes4240]

Spellbinding! Both visually and sonically. Thank you so much!

[@aomoon81]

After a long day, your music is transcendental ! Thank you, Lisa .

[@KortKramer]

So good!

[@amirpf]

This is awesome! ❤️❤️

[@Bfredproduction]

Awesome 🤩!

[@calogerobuttacavoli78]

Beautiful 🖤

[@RestlessHerbalist]

Just amazing.

[@seancooper967]

Blown away. And inspired. Thank you.

[@WalterSchwarzElectronicMusic]

Wonderful sound , great work !